Letter from Admiral Lord Nelson discussing the Dey of Algiers, 1804

Letter to Keats from Lord Nelson on HMS VICTORY, dated 15 May 1804. Nelson discusses a delicate mission relating to the Dey of Algiers, Mustapha VI ben Ibrahim. With the letter he encloses three other papers signed by him and a treaty respecting the island of Malta.

Administrative / biographical background
Dey was the title given to the rulers of the Regency of Algiers.

Record Details

Item reference: KEA/4
Catalogue Section: Personal collections
Level: ITEM
Date made: 1803-1804
Creator: Nelson, Horatio
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London